That was pretty interesting. I hadn't heard of that channel before, thanks!
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Well, this seems like a crappy news to me. I have the game in my backlog and haven't got around to playing it. If it turns out I can't play the game anymore, I'm gonna be really pissed about it.
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I had my eye on it for a while, and bought one of the upper tiers of a humble bundle to get the game a while back. I like Euro Truck Simulator a lot so thought it might be along those same lines. I played SpinTires a bit but could never really figure out the point of it, it was just... so... painfully... slow... and I'd just get stuck in the mud and have to restart the game. I really wanted to like it but there was no sense of going somewhere for me, which is what I apparently enjoy in driving games.
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Surprise, surprise, you can no longer buy it on Steam.
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Still available on the humble store if someone is dying to pay 30 USD for a broken game. :P
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I am sooo geting a refund for this piece of crap ...
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At least we know this won't show up as a Humble Bundle repeat anytime soon. :-o
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I thought the dev denied those claims already and said it was an anti-piracy bug that's already been fixed?
You might call it backpedalling, suit yourself. To me, sabotaging one's own future career via sabotaging one's own creation is beyond moronic, and I give game devs a little bit more credit in the brain department.
Oh, and to the certain Eastern European stereotyping other Eastern Europeans in an attempt to score themselves a cushtier place among the Higher Beings: grow a spine and have some pride.
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Yet cracked versions did actually work fine. So if that's true, yet another DRM that only hurt legit customers.
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True (unless the cracked version only worked fine because it lagged behind in terms of updates - in which case I'd take the risk of updates temporarily breaking my game over having no updates).
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Oovee came forth with a statement of their own as well.
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Thank you for the links...interesting to hear what comes of this.
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No bother at all.
I'm quite curious myself, even though I've never actually played Spintires. What I hope will happen is that the gaming press will eventually find some disgruntled publishers banging on their doors and demanding that they stop publishing one-sided speculation as news (which they maybe get around to updating after the people they reached out for comment 20 seconds ago have commented on the matter - often to the point of turning the initial report upside-down - but the pitchforks have already been bloodied). And then maybe they stop being party-going buddy-buddies altogether and we finally get some quality reporting.
Would it maybe make sense to put one of these links in the OP, for visibility?
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I feel for the situation but wow that's just insane.
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Oh lookie here, Kotaku is chiming in.
It was just all a big misunderstanding guys, you can put away your pitchforks! =D
Tl;dr - Pavel put a time bomb in the code so pirated versions of the game would crash eventually. He claims he had a fix and planned to update the game, but Oovee would’t respond to him. Oovee claims they found the bug a while ago, and are working with Pavel to deploy a fix.
Oovee still owe Pavel a lot of money, and are bad at communications and PR.
So yeah, not much has changed.
Oh and it's by Nathan Grayson <pause for effect>, if that means anything to you. Click it or don't click it, the tl;dr sums it up anyway.
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Spintires just got a ~150MB patch and seems to be working fine.
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According to both the developer and the publishers this was no sabotage!
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Guess they gave Pavel a little of what they owe him to shut him up.
Pirated copies of the game have been running fine the whole time, contrary to what the time bombs should've done to them. Not that I'm saying they're lying about said anti-piracy measures but...well...that excuse is worn out. Time for a new one :D
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Those kind of protections are really only present in trial software or software that's frequently updated and each build has planned obsolescence (like betas), but anyone who cared to add them with 50+ checks wouldn't let their program be fooled by software such as RunAsDate.
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Hmm. So should i download cracked version from piratebay?!
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Both parties are technically at fault. There has been a long reported history of Oovee not paying Pavel and locking him out from updating the game. There also have been numerous lawsuits involved.
I have not played it recently, so cannot relate to any recent crashes, but the feud between the publisher/developer is old news. Problems with it crashing have been in the game since it came out and the updates have been slow. The crash on launch has been in the game for over a year and random after a certain patch, although you could change your system date to a previous year and it would launch fine, but reset your config file every launch.
I have lots of hours (almost 800) in the game and it's a fun relaxing game to play with friends, especially with mods.
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i wonder if this was all a big lie and people ust kept repeating it, or if the publisher is lying for some unknown reasons...
anyway, facepalm time
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We'll probably never know, as either party would have to admit that they were behaving in an almost law-breaking manner. Seems like both are equally guilty in a manner.
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I almost bought Spintires a few times but the recent updates page was chock full of weird confusing drama about Oovee. Seemed like something was bound to go wrong at some point. GG to the dev I guess, hope he gets paid.
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Now I've seen everything...
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/48jtbl/spintires_publisher_installed_a_time_bomb_in_the/
edit - No matter who is at fault, Oovee or Pavel, one thing is for sure - the only 100% innocent party in this, and the ones getting screwed the hardest, are the customers. Sad state of affairs...
Oovee statement - http://www.oovee.co.uk/forum/topic/12604-official-statement-re-bug-issue-and-sabotage-allegations/#entry93224
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